Obituaries, Page 3

Imogene Stewart Mulkey

Imogene Stewart

Sept. 13, 1920-Oct. 28, 2001

ROCK HOLLOW - Imogene Stewart Mulkey Higgins, 81, of Rock Hollow (Ironton) died Sunday at her home. The Ashland, Ky., native was born Sept. 13, 1920, the daughter of the late John and Grace Fannin Stewart.

She was the wife of the late Franklin Higgins.

She was a housewife and a member of God's Holiness Mission Church of Ironton.

She also was preceded in death by her first husband, John Ballard Mulkey; three brothers, Ray Stewart, Edgar Stewart and Elmer Lee Stewart; and one great-grandson, Justin Holt.

Survivors include two daughters and one son-in-law, Joyce Estes of Rock Hollow and Donna and Dwight Stephens of Auburndale, Fla.; four sons and daughters-in-law, Harry and Linda Mulkey and Ralph and Genieve Mulkey, all of Hanging Rock, Gerald and Nancy Mulkey of Bucyrus and Ballard and Emma Mulkey of South Vienna; 15 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; several step grandchildren; one sister, Betty Chaffins of Hanging Rock; and two sisters-in-law, Violet Stewart and Lillian Stewart, both of Ironton.

Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Highland Memorial Gardens in South Point, with pastor Kermit Webb officiating. Visitation will be after 10 a.m. Thursday at Tracy Brammer Funeral Home.

LOVELL T. MULKEY, 70, of Catlettsburg, husband of Alyce Lynn McKenzie Mulkey, died Thursday in St. Mary�s Hospital. He was a driver with OK Trucking Co. Also surviving are two sons, Bobby C. Chaffin of Huntington and Casey M. Chaffin of Lexington; four daughters, Donna Faye Rice, Jennifer Hicks, Tammy S. Williams and Rebecca T. Hatfield, all of Ashland; one brother, Ernest Mulkey of Billingham, Wash.; and two sisters, Julia Stevens of Lexington and Imogene Clifton of Melbourne, Fla. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Marshall Steen Funeral Home, Ashland; private burial. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Random acts of kindness should be done rather than send flowers.


Published on 04/20/02
in The Herald-Dispatch

Fidelia C. Smith (nee Dodson)

From the Cincinnati Daily Commercial page 5
on August 19, 1887

SMITH

Thursday August 18, at 9:00 AM Fidelia C. Smith wife of George A. Smith Age 59 years.  Funeral SUnday Morning at 10 o'clock.


Mrs. George A. Smith nee Dodson

Wife of the president of Mt. Auburn Street Railway Company, died Thursday, at her home in Mt. Auburn at 9:00 AM.  She had been ill some time, but her death is none the less a shock to a wide circle of friends, for she was, in all that goes up to make up the Christian wife and mother, a model.  Mrs. Smith, who was in her fifty-ninth year, leaves two grown sons and three daughters, one of the latter married.  She was a devoted member of Dr. Rhodes congregation.  Her funderal will take place this (Sunday) morning at 10 o'clock from her late residence on Mason Street, Mt. Auburn.

The Church bells toll this morning will also ring the parting knell to a a happy household.  Mrs. Fidelia C. Smith, wife of George A. Smith, will be laid to rest after an eventful life of fifty-nine years.  Her life was eventful in good deeds, in Christian charity, and those many acts of kindness which made her presence of ray of sunshine in the cottages of the poor and the mansions of the rich.  Imbued with a spirit

whose begignity knew no bounds her death seems a loss irreparable, and angels might weep at the sorrow of the grief-stricken family.  Her death, like her life, was calm, and ended as it had begun, in the peace and good-will to all.  Every charity that stretched out its helping hand to suffering mankind knew her presence and felt her influence, and her demise will prove a universal loss.

Mrs. Smith leaves a large family, Miss Hattie Smith, her daughter, on a visit to California, was at once dispatched for, but owing to the suddenness of her death, can not get here in time for the funderal.  Mr. Al Smith arrived from New York last night.  The funeral takes place from the residence on Mt. Auburn at 10 o'clock this morning.